Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... pattern of written words before us and how much " in " the reader's mind and musculature . We can say , however , that meter inheres in more or less regular linguistic rhythm ; or we can say that talk about meter is a way of describing ...
... pattern of written words before us and how much " in " the reader's mind and musculature . We can say , however , that meter inheres in more or less regular linguistic rhythm ; or we can say that talk about meter is a way of describing ...
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... pattern of the meter is so nearly the same as the stress pattern of the syntax and logic that there is nothing much for the meter to interplay with . The same must be true for all meters depending on patterns of repeated or parallel ...
... pattern of the meter is so nearly the same as the stress pattern of the syntax and logic that there is nothing much for the meter to interplay with . The same must be true for all meters depending on patterns of repeated or parallel ...
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... pattern which works on the reader and is recognized by him , no matter how unconsciously or irrationally , to constitute a significant abstract repetitive frame ; we do not mean an idiosyncratic pattern - like the mere number of ...
... pattern which works on the reader and is recognized by him , no matter how unconsciously or irrationally , to constitute a significant abstract repetitive frame ; we do not mean an idiosyncratic pattern - like the mere number of ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
Copyright | |
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accentual accentual-syllabic action actual aesthetic anapestic beginning blank verse caesura century classical conventions Copyright critical device effect elements Eliot emotional emphasis English poetry English verse enjambment example experience expressive Faber feet fixed forms foot formal heroic couplet iambic pentameter illusion imply initial trochee irony kind language logical meaning medial caesura ment meter metrical variations metrist musical nature number of syllables octave Old English organization Paradise Lost pattern perhaps permission Petrarchan sonnet poem poet's Pope position principle prose prosodic pyrrhic quatrain reader regularity reinforce rhetorical rhyme scheme rhythmical Sapphic Sapphic stanza scansion seems sense sestet Shakespearean shape song sort sound Spenserian spondaic spondaic substitution spondee sprung rhythm stanza stanzaic form stichic stress strophic structure suggest technical technique tends tercet terminal trochee texture thing Thom Gunn thou tion tradition triplet trisyllabic trochee turn unstressed syllables versification W. H. Auden white space William words Wordsworth's Yeats